acronical place : The position occupied by a planet when it is opposite the Sun.

adjusted calculation date : The day on which the planetary position shown in an Ephemeris coincide with the progressed positions of the planets.

Admetos : Sixth symbolic planet used in Uranian astrology.

advantage, line of : axis that connects the third decan of the third and ninth houses.

affinity : A mutual attraction or innate congeniality.

affliction : adverse aspects especially those formed by malefics.

age, astrological (great month) : A period of about 2,150 years, or one-twelfth of the Great Year of approximately 25,800 years. It represents the time required for the vernal equinox to retrograde through the thirty-degree arc of one constellation.

air signs : Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, traditionally associated with the air element and members of the air triplicity.

Akashic records : The memory of nature. A record of every event, sound, sight, or thought that has occurred in history is stamped upon this electro-spiritual substance.

Anareta : From the Greek, literally destroyer. Applied to a malefic that occupies an anaretic place and afflicts the Hyleg; believed by ancients to be life-destructive.

anaretic : final degree (between 29° and 30°) of any sign. Planets and house cusps that occupy anaretic degrees indicate fundamental issues with which one must deal.

angles : The Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven and Imum Coeli; the four cardinal points in a horoscope.

angular houses : The first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses. In a quadrant system (unequal house), the angles form the cusps of these houses.

Animoder of Tetrabiblos : A method of birth time rectification, now obsolete.

antipathy : Inharmonious relations between planets, which rule in opposite signs. Also, conflict between the natal horoscope of two people.

antiscia : A degree and its antiscion are equidistant from a particular reference point such as the MC-IC or summer-winter solstice axis and are called antiscia.

aphelion : The point in a planet's orbit that is most distant from the Sun.

Apheta : A well aspected benefic that occupies an aphetic place in the horoscope, said to have life-preserving qualities.

aphetic places : Those parts of a horoscope from 5° above the Ascendant to 25° below, from 5° below the Descendant to 25° above, and from 5° preceding the ninth house cusp to the middle of the eleventh house.

apogee : The point in a planet's orbit that is most distant from Earth.

Apollon : The fifth symbolic planet used in Uranian astrology.

apparent motion : The motion of a heavenly body as seen from earth.

applying aspect : One in which the significator (the faster moving of two planets involved) is moving toward partile (exactness).

approaching aspect : An aspect in which the significator is moving toward the promittor in natural order of the zodiac.

Aquarian Age : The Great Year that begins around the turn of the twenty-first century and lasts for two thousand years.

Arabian Parts : parts derived from three points in a horoscope, indicates a sensitive point that relates the three factors involved.

arc : The curved path of a stellar body and the angular measurement of this path.

articulate signs : Signs that symbolize speaking facility, namely Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius.

Ascendant : The degree of the zodiac rising over the eastern horizon of the birthplace at the moment of birth.

ascending node : The point where a planet crosses the ecliptic from south to north.

ascending planet : Any planet in the eastern section of a horoscope is ascending, i.e., moving toward the Midheaven.

ascension : Due to the obliquity of the ecliptic, some signs rise over the horizon faster than others. Signs of long ascension require more time to rise than signs of short ascension.

aspect : The angular relationship between two planets or a planet and angle or sensitive point. Zodiacal aspects are also called harmonics.

aspect pattern : Combinations of aspects that form special planetary configurations.

asteroids : Small planets (planetoids) or pieces of planets, most of which are found in the Asteroid Belt, that part of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

astral twins : Two persons who may be unrelated and born at different times and in different places whose horoscopes are very nearly alike.

astroanalyst : The astrological equivalent of a psychoanalyst.

astrolabe : An ancient instrument employed for measuring the angular position of Sun and stars, used also to project the celestial sphere on the plane of the equator.

astrologer : astrology practitioner.

astrologian : astrology teacher

astrologist : A non-professional astrologer.

astrology : The science of relationships as measured by correlations between the movements of celestial bodies and circumstances and events on earth. The art of interpreting the meanings of these relationships. Some branches of astrology are : electional, esoteric, genethliacal, horary, medical, meteorological, and mundane.

athaze : The Moon when it forms an exact conjunction, semi-square, square, quincunox or opposition with the Sun or is separated from the sun by 12° or 160°.

aura : A subtle atmosphere emanating form a living being, object, or place.

ayanamsa : The arc that describes the increasing gap between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs. The ayanamsa, which changes continually at the rate of approximately 50" a year, is currently about 24°